You nailed it man... Very good review, i have the same thoughts

better than las 5 albums, but not enough. still too prog for me.

Listening and digesting a new Opeth album is quite a biscuit to chew. I listened like 6 times yesterday. For me this is (by far?) the most dynamic and flavour richened album ever by Opeth. Being masters of transistions and blending various styles they still really surprise on this album in versitality. For me it was like watching a really great movie or having a 16 meals dinner with asorted carefully picked wine for each meal. Spontaneously, paying respect to the complexity and time to digest a new Opeth album, this is nothing short of a masterpiece! Since one single Opeth song often contains enough material for like 3-5 songs I would say this album contains not only 8 killer songs, but 8 serial-killer songs! Master of masterpiece!

§5 is the song ive been waiting for since Watershed

All I Ever Am is my favorite track! Amazing album indeed. As a fan since 91 I’m very pleased ❤

Listened to it all the way through last night, 10/10 for me. And I’m a 20+ year fan, typical Oldpeth guy. This was the best case scenario for us fans who wanted growls again. And it’s not just a little fan service. This is HEAVY. Epic. Theatrical. It’s a whole new era, it feels like

Respect your opinion but this albums sounds nothing like ICV or any other Opeth record. Idk what you're smoking. Only similarities the 2 albums have are string and key sections. This probably their most consistent album since Blackwater Park imo

For me the ones I enjoy the most are: 1. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - for me this the Cure's greatest album with their widest variety, greatest number of catchy and timeless pop tunes, like Just Like Heaven, Why can't I Be You and Hot, Hot hot, combined with my favorite brooding and in your face numbers too filled with defiance like Fight and the awesome Hendrix wah wah songs like The Kiss and All I Want to illuminate the highlights. This is the best time tunnel album for me too taking me in a journey back to autumn 1987 when this played in my dorm among the budding goths dressed in black with the long cyclops bangs on one side covering one of their eyes as a sophomore at university. 2. Head on the Door really close second for me and best compliment for Kiss Me Kiss Me but Baby Screams also shows the harder defiant edge. In Between Days and Blood are great pop tracks, Push and Kyoto with its haunting eastern erotic influences are great. 3. Disintegration- really like this album Pictures of You connects with me the deepest since a horrible brutal tragedy to a beautiful soul named Junko Furuta happened the same year the album was made in late 1988 and early 1989 and pictures of her are the best way to remember her beloved but bittersweet memory. One of my favorite Cure songs. Other favorites are the mystical intensity of Fascination Street and the magical pop song Lovesong with the melodic violin embellishments. 4. Wish

Great list! I like TFF quite a bit more than you, but that's okay!

Bloodflowers is a great album.

Smiths voice sounds great, the production is a vast improvement on the previous 2 records but my is it tedious... its like a tribute band trying to do the cure... the lyrics. lost, cold, alone, dark, its the end... its all been said and done before.... the album is clearly going to be a big success so there will have to be a follow up... fast forward a few years.. it'll be i'm lost, alone, its dark, its cold, its the end...

Mr. AllMusic published a very elaborate description and review! Your’s too. The Cure with this album demonstrate perfectlythe full extent of this high-quality opus. I fully agree with the review. This is one of The Cure's best albums with: 1. Pornography; 2. Disintegration; 3. Songs...; 4. The head...; 5. Kiss me... Several other reviews mention that this album is beautiful, but depressing. This album is more than that. The atmosphere, the sounds and the content form the expression of an inspired and skillfully presented work. That these critics consider the album depressing is an opinion, but the subjects treated and chosen go in the direction of a tragedy. When an artist chooses to talk about suicide, death, the end of things, it cannot be otherwise! Besides, if we focus on the titles alone, we find the essence of the subject: ... alone... nothing is forever... fragile... war... nodrone... never... end... There is nothing joyful there!!! Once the subject is understood, we enter the musical world and that is where EVERYTHING makes sense! The dissonant guitars, the repetitive and bewitching drums, the heavy bass, the atmospheric synths... everything conjures to transport us to the afterlife, if only we are sensitive to it. So I will dance on the Endsong as a man alone before the fate of the world with dark glasses that are worth as much as those of the pleasant but superficial ditties of the current songs and... so sad by their scope! The Cure deals with sad things, it is true, but my god it is joyful to get carried away and fly away with them!!! I will be at their next show in Quebec to celebrate their vision... and I will not be the only one... living from this collective divergence, shared with the joy in my heart of dancing on the sadness of this world!

Where is album 4.14 scream haw I get that

I like it! 8/10

"It can never be the same" and "Underneath the Stars" , to me were the only true Cure songs that they put out in the last decade and a half. 4:13 was horrible because it was no keyboard. This album has picked up where Bloodflowers left off! My favs on this are "WARSONG" and" ENDSONG"

I have just watched your opeth album reviews,but personal opinion is just that,I equally like the newer music as much as their older output. My favourite opeth albums are,watershed,pale communion & orchid. They have not made a bad album,& & I can't wait for their new,last will & testament album.

This album was a huge disappointment to me…it’s my least favorite Cure album now, I’m sorry.

I had a mixed reaction to "Alone" when I first heard it. I didn't think it was interesting enough to go on for three minutes before the vocals kick in. Like you, I wasn't crazy about that drum sound - at first. Now I love the song. I just needed to get used to it. Given time, it has revealed more subtle details and it does indeed set the tone for the album quite well. It works well as an opening song. When I first heard it, I didn't know it was the opener, and I needed that context. This will teach me to wait for the whole fucking album to come out! 😆

Ive heard the best Album since wish. Boris williams should return

This feels like the natural successor to Bloodflowers. It's like the last two albums never happened. They had some good songs, but let's be honest, they were inconsistent & poorly produced. This is the exact opposite! It's beautiful!

First impression after one listen: 7.5 out of 10. Really like the production, especially drums and bass. Doesn’t sound dark or downbeat or heavy to me. Its more melancholic above anything else. Could be a grower with repeated listening.

sick video!

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Well done mate! I never got into this band. I did hear Bloody Kisses years and years ago and like a few songs, but I LOVED the "Summer Breeze" cover. I've gone back to that one quite a bit. One day I'll do the deep dive.

Saw type o negative countless times back in the early 90s and mid...Seen carnivore back in 87 at lmours....Talked with Pete many times at CONEY ISLAND lunch in Scranton Pennsylvania where he lived right down the road from me

Friday new album

I almost consider the top a robert smith solo album he did mostly everything on it

Totally agree

Don't want to over-comment, but have to say that there is not a single song on 'Turbo' that I like. It is last on my list. I almost stopped listening to Priest after that one, but got a grip on myself and continued listening.

Good video. So much comes down to personal taste, but I thought your assessment of Rocka Rolla was bang-on. Not traditional Priest, but a fascinating window into their origin story. You have to listen to it that way, and try not to compare with what came later. On its own, there are some enchanting tracks. I love 'Run of the Mill' and 'Never Satisfied' - actually, all of Side Two is a trip.

Wild Mood Swings is infinitely better than 4:13 Dream.

1) Sad Wings Sin After Sin Hell Bent Stained Class Defenders Nostradamus British Steel Rocka Rolla Invincible Shield Screaming Redeemer Point Of Entry Painkiller Firepower Angel Turbo Ram It Demolition Jugulator

Jar of Flies should be on my list. Killer.

1. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged 5 stars (10) 2. Live - Throwing Copper 5 stars (10) 3. Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies 5 stars (10) 4. Weezer - Blue 5 stars (10) 5. Jeff Buckley - Grace 5 stars (9.9) 6. Green Day - Dookie 5 stars (9.8) 7. Tori Amos - Under the Pink 5 stars (9.7) 8. Queensryche - Promised Land 5 stars (9.6) 9. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy 4.5 stars (9) 10. Ride - Carnival of Light 4.5 stars (9)

1994 10) Too High to Die - Meat Puppets 09) Monster - R.E.M. 08) Sixteen Stone - Bush 07) Purple - Stone Temple Pilots 06) Under the Pink - Tori Amos 05) Let Love In - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 04) Dummy - Portishead 03) Superunknown - Soundgarden 02) Live Through This - Hole 01) Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing Honorable Mention: Mellow Gold - Beck

1. Painkiller 2. Stained Class 3. Defenders Of The Faith 4. Screaming For Vengeance 5. Sad Wings Of Destiny 6. Sin After Sin 7. Hellbent For Leather 8. Invincible Shield 9. Firepower 10. British Steel 11. Angel Of Retribution 12. Point Of Entry 13. Rocka Rolla 14. Ram It Down 15. Turbo 16. Redeemer Of Souls 17. Nostradamus 18. Jugulator 19. Demolition

We shall agree to disagree, brilliant song, Watch it be a staple live,

We agree on so much with one exception, Harris' decision to not master AMOLD ,for me at least, was a great decision, I absolutely love that "real" sound in an age of auto tuning and over compression it really stands out and I believe it's their last truly great album, powerslave will always be no.1 for me but A Matter of Life and Death probably is the album I listen to the most over the last few years, easily a top 5 and depending how I'm feeling , top 3 along with powerslave and killers. One other note, most of the writing and recording was done together in studio over a month period that really gives that organic feel and showcases the talent and greatness of this band. Peace friend and up the irons!

Thank you .. this was a very moving album. I expect quality records from Nick Cave until he retires or until “the bright horses have broken free from the fields”❤🩶🖤

My favorite influencer. Pozdrav za tinija iz Ljubljane

3:08 I wish "Babe I'm On Fire" was even longer. I could go on for an hour and it would not bore me.

Not gonna lie Holy Money / A Screw is my favorite swans album so this hurts 😭

Blood Flowers is an incredible album !

Great list! Personally, i'd put "Kicking against the pricks" and "your funeral my trial" a little bit higher (yes, kickins against the pricks is a "covers" record, but has some great songs like "muddy water"). Another thing that's interesting: i never cared much for "the boatman's call" - when it came out, i really hated it, i thought it was very mellow and boring. I've come to like it more, but i don't think is one of their best albums. In an interview, Mick Harvey told that Nick Cave wanted a certain mood for the record and insisted not to include the "rockier" songs recorded for the album sessions. That's a shame. If you drop some of the weaker songs (like "green eyes" or "there is a kingdom") and replace them with some great songs recorded on the same sessions ("come into my sleep" and "babe, i got you bad") you'd have a much more balanced record. Shame on you, Nick Cave :)

Well...I like one album on this list.

Well...I don't like any of the albums on your list.

Well...I like one album on your list.

Well...I like one album on your list.

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I have sorceress dead last too but it has solely to do with the overly muddy/bassy production. I really think it would be more well received if the production wasn’t the worst. Btw you should try listening to watershed and heritage back to back with headphones on and it will make heritage 1000x better. Listen to pale communion after that and it all might finally click like it did for me after 13 years. Trust me, I gave up on opeth after heritage too but now heritage and pale communion are some of my favorites. Heritage especially is definitely a headphones album though, the dynamics and atmosphere are unparalleled imo.